Modern science distributes benefits to the advantaged and costs to the disadvantaged

Evidence

The concept of scientific progress that Bacon developed as a program sanctioned the gap between journeyman and mastercraftsman. Much has been made of the concept of progress in Western society, through which standards of living for “all mankind” are presumably improved. But did the “public good” really include the cottager, journeyperson, and peasant, or did it function so as to benefit the master craftsman, clothier, and merchant? — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 712 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Technological development can cancel out women’s physical disadvantage relative to men — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 142; Sciences’ benefits skew to the advantaged while costs fall on the least advantaged — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1570; Resource-advantaged groups coordinate to create institutions expropriating from the disadvantaged — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 667 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• The ideology of scientific progress legitimated class hierarchy rather than lifting the poor #corroborates (0.92) — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 712